December 2010
53 posts
“I want to see a fellowship where your burdens become mine! Your grief over your...”
– Leonard Ravenhill
“David had one of the most blessed experiences in the world, and the blessedness...”
– Leonard Ravenhill
just a thought
mindfulcreation:
thread-of-experience:
I hear a lot of people around me saying they want to be a part of “something big” within the Christian circle. I never knew we weren’t part of something Big. I’m pretty sure that God is Big. And i’m sure that being a part of the things He Loves is bigger than anything else.
Levi.
thatswhatjulessaid:
Shh, shh, girl, I will not even mention… it. The hands that we’re dealt – I don’t understand. And I don’t have all the answers, and I don’t know all the plans. I just wanted to tell you that you’re beautiful, I think you’re lovely, I think I know love that loves the unloving.
“Either there is a God, or there isn’t. Both possibilities are frightening. If...”
– Russian astronomer (via sketchmedesire)
To Write Love Her Arms: Behind The Scenes: For the... →
twloha:
We go looking for what went missing.
That person they used to call it was priceless where did they go am i that easily replaced
We wonder. We wish we didn’t wonder but we wonder. And especially today.
And the lies, they aim to name us. They whisper on repeat. They know our dreams, they know…
“You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not...”
– Anne Lamott
“What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had...”
– Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two (via thoughtsdetained)
“Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try...”
– Anne Lamott
“Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone...”
– Anne Lamott
“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found,...”
– — Anne Lamott
“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
– — Anne Lamott
“Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via sketchmedesire)
the art of losing myself.: "Spiritual Road Kill" →
justgenesis:
Have you ever looked at a dead animal in the middle of the road and wondered what they were thinking? I am not trying to be gross, but I have often wondered why they didn’t choose a side and stay there. Spiritually, I ask the question as well. My question echoes God’s thought. He…
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to...”
– C. S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
(via peas-n—carrots)
“People say they ‘find’ love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love...”
– The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed...
todayisawindingroad:
Amos 5:21-24 (MSG)
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral...”
– Mark Twain (via thoughtsdetained)
“The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in...”
– Mike Bickle (via -bailee)
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow...”
– St. Francis of Assisi
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little...”
– C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity (via jaycechandler)
andrew k. dixon: luke 1:80--The soul of my New... →
mindfulcreation:
“And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.”
John got prepared for his ministry for around thirty years. He only then acted out his ministry for approximately six months before his beheading by Herod. He…
“We’ve conditioned ourselves to hear messages without responding. Sermons have...”
– Francis Chan (via myfatherslove)
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
– John Muir (via girlwithoutwings)
“I’ve spent too much time wanting what was taken from me, not what was given.”
– Ben Barnes as King Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (via quote-book)
“Everything is gone that ever made Jerusalem, like all cities, torn apart,...”
– Frederick Buechner
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via mikeycdavis)
“Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of Him again. Once they have...”
– Fredrich Beuchner, Secrets in the Dark (via jasonvana)
Getting over the fear →
“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.”
– Duke Ellington (via thoughtsdetained)
heisjealousforme:
Change by Tracy Chapman
if...
“Maybe what you need is a different kind of love, one that you have never seen. ...”
– Brendan James, “Different Kind of Love”
“The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the...”
– Psalm 33:10-13
“To be safe, I should learn everything about everything. But I don’t have time.”
– Michael Scott (via andrew)
“God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human...”
– — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Daily Meditations from His Letters, Writings, and Sermons)